Question P2 Decimals and percentages
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Choose the suitable abbreviation for a pencil’s length: cm or km?
Answer
cm
Keep place values and the whole visible while scaling decimals or finding a percentage.
In this one. A unit must match both the attribute and the size being measured.
The question offers two possible units for the same kind of measurement, such as cm or km, or asks to read a time or a percentage from a picture.
Children pick the unit that sounds familiar rather than the one that fits the object's size, or read a clock's hour and minute hands the wrong way round.
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